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title: "How did Abraham Lincoln help ensure that border states supported the Union?"  
description: "How did Abraham Lincoln help ensure that border states supported the Union?"  
author: "Cox elliott"  
published: 2018-04-25  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/41636/how-did-abraham-lincoln-help-ensure-that-border-states-supported-the-union  
category: "history, politics & society"  
tags: ["usa history"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# How did Abraham Lincoln help ensure that border states supported the Union? 

How did [Abraham Lincoln](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/34863/who-was-named-president-after-abraham-lincoln-was-assassinated) help ensure that [border states](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/41567/why-did-the-border-states-delaware-maryland-kentucky-and-missouri-where-slavery-was-legal-not-join-other-southern-states-in-seceding-in-the-months-before-abraham-lincoln-took-office) supported the Union? \
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